The DISCOVER-AQ curriculum integrates real-world research with real-life learning to answer the question: What are the causes and effects of air quality issues and how do they affect human health and the environment?
Context for Use
The four DISCOVER-AQ modules can be completed independently, sequentially, or extended into a larger unit of study.
Airplane and weather balloon
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What Students Will Do
Explore air pollutants and learn about air quality in four modules that can be completed independently, sequentially, or extended into a larger unit of study.
Materials
Materials linked here provide educators with a unit overview. All curriculum materials (teacher guides, student guides, slide decks) can be accessed in either the Google Drive folder here or by clicking on the modules in the description below.
Description
Each of the four modules in the DISCOVER-AQ curriculum applies the 5E instructional model.
Module 1.1 Air Quality: More than Meets the Eye
Module 1.2 Oh No, O3zone: “Good Up High, Bad Nearby!”
Module 1.3 Sherlock NOx: Solving the Mystery of Unnatural Pollution in Natural Places
Module 1.4 Carbon Gases CSI: Mobile Lab, Methane & More
